The Truth of the Hypostsasis can be found within the Incarnation of Christ

The Truth of the Hypostasis can be found within the Incarnation of Christ

Truth be said there are still heresies that seem to flourish as they resurrect from the ashes of disbelief.  We find the early heresies denied Christ’s true humanity.   This was the Monophysites who affirmed this, and the fourth ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, confessed  by saying: “We confess that the one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division, or separation.  The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person and one hypostasis.”  (CCC 467).  One TV evangelist was heard saying; “Jesus left his divinity in heaven and took upon himself strictly a human person and everything following his ministry was without a divine nature.

Then there is the Gnostic Docetism that Jesus was divine only without a human nature.  A note of another TV minister said that when Jesus died on the cross the Blood he shed was without any human element, but divine only.

Our point here is the truth of Christ, the Incarnation and our redemption through the True God and True Man is real and theologically correct.  Checking the CCC we can ascertain the many councils that dealt with these heretical unbeliefs that without bishops unraveling them would have left the Church in a false look at God’s Church.  However, we are already living in a period of unbelief with false teachers spreading heresy over the TV and Iphone connections.  

It is bad enough that our government is working to denounce our freedoms by removing, if possible, the 1st and 2nd amendments of our Constitution.  Now the Catholic Church may have to again develop some manner of reiterating the documents of the CCC and counter the attacks on our traditions and theology of the Truth.   To be sure, truth is not what any individual decides to interpret as their belief, but what God ordained when he created humanity and the cosmos as well.  We are under the teaching of the Church as found in the CCC:  “The mutual connections between dogmas, and their coherence, can be found in the whole of the Revelation of the mystery of Chhrist.  In Catholic doctrine there exists an order or hierarchy of truths, since they vary in their relation to the foundation of the Christian faith.”  (CCC 90).

When we thought that Christian preachers had it all together we have discovered that in order for them to discount the Church of Rome, Catholicism, they have made their own theology on what the truth of Christ is.  

“Because human nature was assumed, not absorbed, in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body.  In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it.  Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from one of the Trinity.  The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity.  In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity.  (CCC 470). 

It is time to confront these denominations when they, through their false teaching, draw Catholics and other main-line Christians to a philosophy that is heretical in essence and false in adherence to what is actual truth in the eyes of Almighty God.  

The Son of God worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind.  He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved.  Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.”  (footnote to CCC 470).

This brings us to the Immaculate Conception, another truth that many non-Catholic denominations do not adhere to.  Would God have his only Son, to be born through a woman, who like each human, comes through the womb of one who also has the stain of original sin?   No!  “Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, full of grace through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception.  That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:  The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Chrisr, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”  (CCC 491).

Ralph B. Hathaway